Carnivals and fireworks are Hong Kong’s trademark Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations — but tens of thousands of people also travel to a remote village to hurl oranges at a tree in hopes of making their wishes come true. In a tradition stretching back ...

China’s financial hub of Shanghai said Sunday it was canceling its famed Lunar New Year lantern festival in the wake of a stampede that left 36 people dead. The announcement illustrates the spreading effects of the Jan. 1 disaster, in which surging crowds trampled ...

Some wailed and some staggered with grief as relatives of the 36 people killed in Shanghai’s New Year’s Eve stampede visited the disaster site Tuesday for seventh-day death commemorations, which are a revered ritual in China. But each family was allowed to stay only ...

China demanded a review of crowd-safety procedures as dozens of people remained in Shanghai hospitals after a deadly stampede on New Year’s Eve killed 36 and caused several celebrations across the city to be canceled. At least 47 people were injured, including 40 still ...

Musical powerhouses Kanye West and Paul McCartney have teamed up in a surprise collaboration to produce a new single released Thursday, “Only One.” The soft ballad, which West said was inspired by his daughter, features the vocals of the world-famous rapper, and former Beatle ...

Revelers crowded New York’s Times Square and converged on the beaches of Brazil and skyscrapers of Dubai to say good riddance to a turbulent 2014 marred by terror woes, Ebola outbreaks and a horrific series of airline disasters. But tragedy struck in Shanghai, Baghdad ...

A huge blaze believed to have been ignited by firecrackers razed nearly a thousand shanties and killed three people in a creekside slum in the Philippine capital, one of more than a dozen fires across the country linked to raucous New Year’s celebrations. Strong ...

After a long night of celebrating the arrival of 2015 tens of thousands of Europeans saw no better way to begin the new year than to jump into freezing water. In the Netherlands alone some 50,000 people, many wearing knitted caps in trademark Dutch ...

A schizophrenic Florida man decapitated his mother with an ax on New Year’s Eve because he was fed up with her nagging, U.S. authorities and media said Thursday. Christian Jose Gomez, 23, was arrested and charged with first degree murder after admitting to killing ...

Put on your yellow underwear, toss your potatoes under the bed and grab your suitcase for a walk around the block: The clock is about to strike midnight on New Year’s Eve in Latin America. From the northern deserts of Mexico to the southern ...